February 2013 Eng-Zone: Engineers Australia Sydney Division's e-newsletter sent to you monthly with news and details of activities around Engineers Australia.
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A Challenging Year Ahead The year ahead is promising to be an important, significant and challenging year for Engineers Australia and the Engineering Profession. It’s a time when the skills and ability of a Professional Engineer will be in demand more than ever before to confront and solve some of the greatest challenges facing mankind. The world’s population has already sailed pass the seven billion mark and continues to increase exponentially placing an unprecedented strain on our planets resources. Some estimates believe that a self-sustainable population of humans in harmony with the natural environment is as low one billion by which has already been exceeded sevenfold. Many of the important issues that our society face are related to growth and resource: environmental distress, water, food supplies, fuel supplies, energy, communication and transport – and all these issues fall squarely into the realm of Engineering. Now more than ever before the problems will become more acute, and the solutions more demanding, requiring an efficient, responsive and capable Engineering Profession. The importance of Engineering contribution to our national economy and national well-being should not be understated nor should it be undervalued. Arguably, two fundamental reasons why our federal government isn’t facing the severe austerity dilemmas of some European Parliaments is because of two engineering reasons: coal and iron ore – without these Australia’s economy would be catastrophic, and with that suffers our national standard of employment, education, health care, aged care, civil security, and standard of living. Read more... John Nichols BE(Civil) CPEng FIEAust Engineers Australia Sydney Division President 2013
NEWS ____________________ Congratulations ! We would like to congatulate the following EA Sydney Division members who have been appointed with Chartered (CPEng) Status recently. New Chartered Members Charan Jit Sing Flora Sanjay Khanna Kwok Leung Tang Jonathan Derry Heath Gholamhossein Afsharmehr Robert James Bates Lachlan Dylan Becher Adel Wadie Botros
Introducing 2013 EA Sydney Division Committee 2013 EA Sydney Division Committee, led by Persident John Nichols CPEng FIEAust has embarked on an year of guiding & governing the Division in pursuing Engineers Australia's Objectives. New members joined to the committee this year are: Jonathan Barnes GradIEAust, Nathan Hanley GradIEAust, Marcus Moore MIEAust, Leila Sadler MIEAust CPEng, Veena Sahajwalla FIEAust CPEng and Chris Skinner MIEAust CPEng. View all Division Committee members at this link... Discover Engineering at ANSTO The Discover Engineering Day program presents an opportunity for students to be exposed to engineering as an industry and as a profession. The day consists of hands on engineering activities, presentations from student and professional engineers. Next Discover Engineering Day Will be held at ANSTO on Tuesday 26 March 2013. View further details and register here... Call for Nominations for Mentees in the 2013 CELM SYD Mentoring Program CELM Sydney is launching its new mentoring program for engineering leaders. This is an elite mentoring program, designed to develop leadership skills for engineering managers, and to
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foster a collaborative relationships between managers across engineering disciplines. CELM Sydney invites you to submit a nomination if you are interested in being a Mentee. View further information. CELM NSW Sponsorship for Fellows’ Luncheon CELM NSW is offering a limited number of sponsorships for outstanding Young engineers (both male and female, under 35 years) and Female engineers to attend the Engineers Australia Fellows Luncheon on 15th of March. View details on how to apply. Regional Convention - EA Newcastle Division The 2013 Regional Convention will be hosted by Mid North Coast group in Port Macquarie from Friday, 24th May to Sunday, 26th May around the topic, “Understanding our Future: the engineering landscape.” Eight keynote speakers will highlight current and emerging issues in regional Australia, which will represent many of the future challenges and opportunities to be addressed by engineering professionals in sustaining our regions. View details and register here...
EVENTS 07.02.2013 Cloud Computing Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) NSW Australia Chapter presentation to take the audience through Cloud Computing market trends, and what forward planning organisations are undertaking to future proof their business in order to ensure their profitability in the future. View details... 09.02.2013 2013 Inaugural Sandcastle Competition An exciting new competition is being run through YEAS and DARCH (NSW Young and Emerging Architects Network). This friendly competition invites participants to form teams of up to 5 people who will compete against others to build the ultimate sandcastle. Register now.. 12.02.2013 Specialist Systems Engineering in Transportation Projects The INCOSE/SESA Transportation Working Group (NSW) invites you to our first seminar for the year on the practice of Specialist Systems Engineering, exploring topics such as Human Factors and Systems Assurance. View details.. 14.02.2013 EMC Issues with VSDs This presentation will cover VSD design aspects and will highlight the EMC best practices to avoid undesired Electromagnetic interference when installing VSDs in commercial and industrial applications. View details...
EEA is the education and training subsidiary of Engineers Australia. EA members get a 10% discount on registrations. All courses are eligible for CPD. View below EEA Courses that may be of interest to you: Business Development for Engineers: Presenting Solutions, Handling Price Objections and Closing the Sale (Online Session) How you present your proposal can have as much effect on its success or failure as the actual proposal itself. When done incorrectly you get objections and price pressure. How do you change your approach in order to improve your quote / proposal win rate? Register now... Taking your People to Higher Levels of Performance: 15 things tha make a difference (Online Session) Manager's depend on the effectiveness of their staff to achieve organisational outcomes, and by
18.02.2013 Caspian Sea - Maritime Works for the Kashagan Project Coastal, Ocean and Port Engineering Panel presenting Peter Coltman (Royal Haskoning DHV). Further details will be available soon at engineersaustralia.org.au/sydney/events 19.02.2013 Leadership in the Age of Social Media Contract Control International presentation. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn - Do you use SOCIAL Media? Do you know WHY it is important to your Business? View details... 21.02.2013 One Way to Avoid the Impacts of Carbon Tax (Are Your Pumps Sized Correctly?) The world has changed and engineers need to recognise that they need a different approach in the selection of pumps. The end user is now expecting that a more diligent selection is to be provided by engineers in the selection of pumps. Register now... 22 or 23.02.2013 CPEng Workshop Upgrade your professional status to CPEng, College Membership and NPER by attending a half-day workshop and by subsequently submitting your application. View details... 25.02.2012 The Sustainability Challenge of Future Urban Transport Presentation outlining EcoTransit's current infrastructure campaigns including the light rail orbital concept, White Bay Green Link and Parramatta Road light rail as well as Ecotransit's opposition to Infrastructure NSW's WestConnex proposal and the wildly
learning what works and what doesn't in generating high performance, these outcomes are more likely to be realised. Here are 15 tips to make a real difference. Register now... To learn more and register you can visit EEA web site at www.eeaust.com.au, email EEA on info@eeaust.com.au or phone on 03 9326 9888.
inflated cost of rail infrastructure construction in NSW which is typically four times the cost of construction overseas or in other Australian states. Register here... 27.02.2012 Going low carbon - the Approach of the International Energy Policy Institute The Annual Meeting of the Four Societies(EA NEP, ANA, RoyalSoc & AIE) presenging Professor Stefaan Simons, Director, International Energy Policy Institute, University College London. View details... 05.03.2013 An Overview of the Aerospace Technical Program at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Joint Board for Aerospace Engineering of Engineers Australia and the Royal Aeronautical society, Australian Division presenting Eminent Speaker Prof Takashi Ishikawa. View details... 12.03.2013 Contract Management Fundamentals Presented by Contract Control International in Sydney. Read more‌ 13-14.03.2013 Administration of Construction Contracts Presented by Contract Control International in Sydney. Read more...
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